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by quux 30 days ago
No, I don’t think so, because the egg still needs to be fertilized by a sperm cell to develop into an embryo.

Now if the sperm cell were from the same donor I don’t know what would happen

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> Now if the sperm cell were from the same donor I don’t know what would happen

Probably nothing special except some inbreeding with the loss of 25% of genetic material of the donor individual (each gamete containing a random 50% of the donor's genetic material). Not sure how fast this level of inbreeding would be deleterious.

That's some Cleopatra-level inbreeding. The child's - or should we say the victim's - DNA would have longer runs of homozygosity than a child of incest.